AN AMSTERDAM SCHOOL WROUGHT-IRON HANGING-LAMP, designed by H.J. Winkelman, the circular framework composed of a ring consisting of a iron sheet applied with four anchor-shape divisions, each so-called panel with curved upper rim with openwork rounded triangular decoration above a circular opening with openwork geometrical rim to reveal the light-bulb, the panels further decorated at the sides with openwork spade- and triangular motifs, the lower rim of the ring cut with shark-tooth motifs alternating with scrolling strips and supporting the circular dome-shape ivory coloured silk shade, the lamp suspended from the shaped quatrefoil ceiling-rose by a central tube and by four leather chords decorated with wooden beads, the chords applied to the frame and to the ceiling-rose by small hooks
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AN AMSTERDAM SCHOOL WROUGHT-IRON HANGING-LAMP, designed by H.J. Winkelman, the circular framework composed of a ring consisting of a iron sheet applied with four anchor-shape divisions, each so-called panel with curved upper rim with openwork rounded triangular decoration above a circular opening with openwork geometrical rim to reveal the light-bulb, the panels further decorated at the sides with openwork spade- and triangular motifs, the lower rim of the ring cut with shark-tooth motifs alternating with scrolling strips and supporting the circular dome-shape ivory coloured silk shade, the lamp suspended from the shaped quatrefoil ceiling-rose by a central tube and by four leather chords decorated with wooden beads, the chords applied to the frame and to the ceiling-rose by small hooks
101cm. high approx.
Lot Essay
cf. Cornelis van der Sluis, Binnenhuiskunst II, Amsterdam, 1921, p. 69, afb. 95, illustrated
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